• Duh of the Day: Orange is the New Black Renewed for Season 4 at Netflix
• Who News: Christopher Eccleston Revealed Why He Left ‘Doctor Who’
• ‘Our Planet’ Set At Netflix: 8-Part Follow-up To ‘Planet Earth’ Series
• ‘Justified’: A Look at Its Finale and Legacy
• Post-mortem: ‘Empire’s’ Taraji P. Henson Is a Post-Mortem ‘Person of Interest’ in Riveting Return
• Mark Your Calendars: ABC Family Sets Summer Premiere Dates for Pretty Little Liars, The Fosters, Melissa & Joey, and More
• For Kids Sake: ‘Sesame Street’ Is Getting Its First Set Redesign In 45 Seasons
• Beauty and the Beast Season 3 Trailer: Vincent Plots His Proposal to Catherine
• Funny Alert: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jerry Seinfeld join forces again on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
• Another Game of Thrones Season Premiere, Another Ratings Record
• Funny Business: Ellen DeGeneres’ ‘Heads Up!’ Ordered To Series By HLN
• Smart: Netflix Responds to ‘Daredevil’ Backlash With Special Audio Feature for Blind Fans
• TV Review: CW’s ‘The Messengers’
• Spotlight: The Women of Younger on Growing Older, Intergenerational Relationships, and Female Solidarity
• Spoiler Alert: Walking Dead Creator Teases Major Characters’ Reunion, Death
• Must Read TV: Here’s David Chase’s Lengthy Analysis of the Final Sopranos Scene
• Power of 10: Why networks are ordering shorter seasons for their hit shows
• HBO to Periscope: Please monitor for people who are stealing our shows
• Set Your DVR: IFC to Air First Two Seasons of ‘Orphan Black’ in 21-Hour Marathon
• RIP: Justified showrunner explains that bittersweet series finale
Archives for April 2015
On TV Tonight: Wednesday April 15, 2015
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | The Middle | The Goldbergs | Modern Family (R) | The Goldbergs | Nashville | |
CBS | Survivor: Worlds Apart | Criminal Minds | CSI Cyber | |||
CW | Arrow | Supernatural | ||||
FOX | American Idol | The Americans (FX) | ||||
NBC | The Mysteries of Laura (R) | Law & Order: SVU (R) | Chicago PD (R) | |||
MISC | Young & Hungry/Freak Out (ABC Family) | Broadchurch (BBC America) Hot in Cleveland/The Soul Man (TV Land) |
Morning Static: GAME OF THRONES, BEAUTY & THE BEAST, AMERICAN HORROR STORY & More!
• Mark Your Calendars: The CW Sets Summer Premiere Dates for Beauty and the Beast, Two New Comedies, Top Model, and More
• Cool Beans: Katee Sackhoff starring in new science-fiction series ‘Rain’
• Cable Ace: HBO Did The Obvious Thing And Renewed ‘Veep’ And ‘Silicon Valley’
• News You Can Use: The streaming services that faltered during ‘Game of Thrones’ premiere
• Supercut: Arrow introduces The Flash to the Superhero Fight Club
• Workaholic: Chris Harrison Named Host of ‘Millionaire’
• NAB: Shonda Rhimes Inducted Into Broadcasting Hall of Fame
• Scoop: Sarah Paulson Officially Joins ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’
• How ABC Got Its Groove Back (Only Partly Because of Shonda Rhimes) Paul Lee on ‘smart, emotional television’ and plans to ‘reinvent reality’
• Smear the Queer: ‘The X-Files’ Reboot and Stereotypes in Speculative Fiction
• Study: Game of Thrones Leading the Charge for HBO Now Viewers Consumption up 85 percent since stand-alone service was announced
• Funny Business: ‘Veep’ Creator Talks Selina’s Political Competition and Hugh Laurie’s “Big Hitter”
• Must See TV: (Almost) All of CSI:Cyber’s Cringeworthy Tech Buzzwords in One Video
• Hallmark Renews ‘Good Witch’: Second Season to Debut in 2016
• Intel: Person of Interest EP Reveals the How and Why of Taraji P. Henson’s Return
• Giving the Devil His Do-Rag: Why Netflix’s ‘Daredevil’ Is the Least Marvel-y Marvel Property Yet
• Why we have Rome to thank for Game of Thrones: Before King’s Landing, HBO built The Eternal City
• Norman Bates finally went Psycho on Bates Motel: Freddie Highmore explains ‘the beginning of the end’
• Opinion: You want Game of Thrones? Pay for it – downloading is theft
• Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow: How ‘Lawman’ Became ‘Justified’
• Straming News: How to Train Your Dragon TV series to debut on Netflix in June
On TV Tonight: Tuesday April 14, 2015
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Fresh Off the Boat | Repeat After Me | Agents of SHIELD | Jimmy Kimmel Live (R) | ||
CBS | NCIS | NCIS: New Orleans | Person of Interest | |||
CW | The Flash | iZombie | ||||
FOX | Hell’s Kitchen | New Girl (R) | Weird Loners | Justified (FX, Series Finale) | ||
NBC | The Voice | Undateable | One Big Happy | Chicago Fire (R) | ||
MISC | Finding Carter (MTV) Your Family or Mine (TBS) Younger (TV Land) Sirens (USA) Tosh.0/Brickleberry (Comedy) |
Breaking TV News: LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN Unveils Star-Studded Lineup for Dave’s Final 28 Shows
Press Release: David Letterman, the longest-running host in late night history at 33 years, will begin his final 28 broadcasts of the LATE SHOW tonight, with a star-studded lineup of entertainment guests making their final appearances with him. As previously announced, his final LATE SHOW broadcast is Wednesday, May 20 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. [Read more…]
Morning Static: TEEN WOLF, MTV, DAREDEVIL & More!
• ‘Teen Wolf’ Season 5 Promo: New Villains Arrive as “The Rules Have Changed”
• Funny Business: ‘Veep’ Creator Talks Selina’s Political Competition and Hugh Laurie’s “Big Hitter”
• Trailer Park: Watch the first trailer for the ‘Scream’ TV show
• Showtime’s Boss Talks About the Twin Peaks Avalanche: David Nevins on the troubled reboot, HBO Now and new comedy Happyish
• LOVE Her: Amy Schumer’s Monologue Just Proved The MTV Movie Awards Are Still Fun
• ‘The Flash/Arrow’ Spinoff Show: The Facts & Our Theories
• Review: ‘Cucumber,’ a Logo Series Starring Vincent Franklin
• Newsworthy: CBS names John Dickerson new Face the Nation anchor
• Spoilers are coming: First four ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 5 episodes leaked
• Gulp! ‘Devious Maids’ Trims Regular Cast For Season 3
• Good Question: Why Isn’t Netflix’s New Daredevil Series Available For The Blind?
• It Gets Better? After ‘Interns’ Star Came Out in Russia, a Mix of Fury and Shrugs
• Fox is Remaking The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a Made-for-TV Movie. That’s Probably a Bad Idea.
• TV Shows are Becoming the New Film Franchise, and That’s a Very, Very Bad Thing
• HB…NOOOOO! ‘Veep’ Creator Armando Iannucci to Depart After Four Seasons
On TV Tonight: Monday April 13, 2015
On TV Tonight: Sunday April 12, 2015
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM | |
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ABC | Once Upon a Time | Secrets and Lies | Revenge | ||||
CBS | Madam Secretary | The Good Wife | Battle Creek | ||||
FOX | The Simpsons (R) | Family Guy | The Last Man on Earth | ||||
HBO | Game of Thrones | Silicon Valley | Veep | ||||
NBC | A.D. The Bible Continues (R) | A.D. The Bible Continues | American Odyssey | ||||
MISC | 2015 MTV Movie Awards (MTV) Seeds of Yesterday (Lifetime) | Mad Men (AMC) Salem (WGN America) The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (Lifetime) Wolf Hall (PBS) | |||||
SHO | Nurse Jackie |
BONES Redux: Our Top 5 Moments From “The Baker in the Bits”
Hey, Bone fans. Today’s episode starts with a minor crisis. Booth can’t find an important picture of Brennan and Christine taken while he was in prison. No, another printout won’t do, since that pic got him through the ordeal. It’s lucky Booth married an anthropologist, because Brennan excavates it from the trash in no time. Crisis averted. On to the Bones top five moments.
More Squintern Drama!
What isn’t a minor crisis is what’s going on with Cam and Arastoo. His brother has cancer in his brain stem. They can’t remove it, so he doesn’t have much time. After Arastoo’s parents left, the government wouldn’t let his brother leave. Technically, Arastoo left before he was exiled, and he’s willing to risk going to check on his brother.
Cam seems shaken to the core as she realizes she has no say in his decision. Then calls him “Mr. Vaziri.” He tries telling her he loves her, but she says, “I’m sorry, but I don’t know what that means right now.” OUCH!
Cam goes to Booth for advice, because he’s been to Iran. His prognosis? Worry. But then he makes her laugh. It’s a nice moment between them. Booth is never in the lab any more, so this is a rarity.
In a major role reversal, Arastoo tries to talk about work, but Brennan takes a non-sequitur route to bring it back to his situation and scolds him to be honest with Cam about the risks.
Instead, he guarantees he’ll be fine. But Cam at last understands and tells him she loves him. In the end, he finds out his brother is worse, and he leaves in only a few hours. There’s a tearful goodbye.
Corpse of the Week!
In a break from tradition, we saw the corpse before he was one, since he was escaping a knife-wielding psycho. He tumbled into a blast area and thought he was safe but got blown to bits.
Back at the lab, Brennan hands Arastoo a flat pile of stuff that used to be a skull and asks him to put it back together. She does not use the Christine puzzle analogy this week.
The unfortunate victim’s name is Connor, and he’s an ex-con. As if getting blown up wasn’t enough, the knife-wielder tried to cut out his tattoo.
When Aubrey goes to check out Connor’s pad, he finds Connor’s girlfriend, immediately says something to piss her off, as is his special talent, and then starts interrogating her while she’s only wearing a towel. Turns out Connor told her nothing about his prison life and worked ten hours a day in a bakery. What she neglected to mention was that he took a bunch of drugs.
Did You Remember Booth was in Prison?
I guess this is the week we’re reminded of it throughout the show and just how traumatized he is. Not to minimize what he went through, but he was there for only a few months, got crap because he was a law enforcement officer, and had plenty of people on the outside working to clear him. A common prisoner he was not.
Booth tells Brennan not to judge Connor just because he was in a gang. He reminds her that when you’re behind bars, you gotta do what you can to survive. This theme keeps going, where Brennan spouts recidivism rates, and Booth talks about how there are some good men in prison who only want to turn their life around. She points out Booth was innocent, her dad was an anomaly, etc.
A Bakery Full of Delicious Pie Run by Ex-cons? Why not?
Roger Flender, the owner, hires ex-cons, because his dad was one. He’s upset his employees will think they’re suspects. Uh, yeah. Even if they were never ex-cons. As Brennan says, Roger himself is a suspect. Murder 101: first suspect those the victim knew. Don’t they watch Investigation Discovery?
Alex Rockwell, ex-con and assistant manager, just wants you to try the yummy pie and tasty coffee. Mmmm…pie….
My question. Why is it not until B&B visit the bakery that they first hear the name Pemberton? Isn’t that one of the first things Booth should have researched? Find out who the victim of his crime was and if they’d want revenge?
Anyway, Connor was a driver in a convenience store robbery, and Pemberton’s sister got shot. Pemberton would come by and threaten Connor, but Flender didn’t think it was noteworthy enough to mention, because it happens all of the time to the ex-cons, completely missing the point that the other guys weren’t MURDERED.
They figure out where Connor was being held before he broke free, and inside they find a ton of blood, three incinerated skeletons, and patches of skin with tattoos hanging up on hooks like laundry. YUCK. One of the victims was a priest, and the other was a fellow convict of Connor’s.
Solving the Case!
They find a connection to Rockwell with both the priest and convict. He used to be an altar boy and got into trouble when he was a kid. The convict served time with him.
So, Rockwell just got out of prison and became a serial killer? These killings are ritualistic. This guy seems like a common criminal.
Anyway, Rockwell is MIA at the bakery, but Flender agrees to track him down. For some reason, Rockwell agrees to meet with him, even though he immediately senses a setup. Booth wings Rockwell and arrests him. That was anticlimactic. I was sure it was Flender, and that he’d inherited some kind of serial killer gene from his dad. He’d been held up as such a do-gooder the entire time, I was sure of it. This way it seemed like a whole lot of buildup with a quick ending that made little sense. I never got the vibe that Rockwell was this evil mastermind.
That’s all, folks! Do you think Arastoo is coming back from Iran? Gosh, I hope so. I’ve barely gotten over Sweets.
Morning Static: GAME OF THRONES, CSI, CASTLE & More!
• Schumer? We hardly know her! Meet Amy Schumer, the comedian poised to take over the world.
• Turn: Washington’s Spies’ star beauty Ksenia Solo turning heads
• Life is more than just about surviving: A strong, spoiler-free recommendation to watch THE 100
• The Comedians: Is FX’s Satirical Comedy ‘Gonna Be Good’?
• After Rolling Stone Debacle, Will Sexual Assault Survivors Trust the Media?
• Friday Fun: 22 Questions “The Simpsons” Refused To Answer
• Meet Daredevil, TV’s emo superhero
• Uncensored – Key & Peele – “Game of Thrones” Recap
• Watch: Change Is Coming In First Teaser Trailer For ‘True Detective’ Season 2
• Wowza: Canadian Network Boss Loses Job Over News Coverage Meddling
• ‘Flash/Arrow’ Spinoff Titled ‘The Atom’ For Now; New All-Star Team Up Featurette
• The Business of Show: CBS Strikes New Deals for All Access Streaming Service 12 station groups will take part in revenue-share
• Sad But True: ‘Game of Thrones’ Piracy Soars Ahead of Season 5 Premiere
• Funny Business: NBC’s ‘One Big Happy’ Turns Preemption Into “Twitter-sode”
• Why You Should Be Watching ‘CSI: Cyber,’ the Best-Worst Show on Television
• Who Knew? Our Fixation on TV Reboots and Adaptations Is Actually Enabling More Originality
• This Week in Tech: Disney Presses Apple to Carry More Channels on Internet TV Service
• The Price Of Success: Hit Shows Bracing For Cast Exits & Untimely Cancellations
• Spoiler Alert: Castle’s Top-Secret Season Finale Recruits CSI Vet Wallace Langham
• Corporate Synergy Alert: How Much Time Do the Morning Shows Spend Promoting Company Projects?
• Review: ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 5
• Saying Goodbye to Nurse Jackie: Edie Falco, Peter Facinelli and More Talk Memories and Beloved Moments